Starting work on a GE 800 Locomotive.

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Brought mine slowly up on a variac... no light in any of the tubes... cleaned and deoxit the pins... half the tubes are lighting... found open heater resistor... got them all going.

Now getting about 7 kV on anode and most voltages are low, but it makes sound and somewhat of a short and VERY unstable pix. The cat is alive!

Most solder joints on the set have never been touched (still painted red), it seems a shame to disturb these but re-cap job is definitely called for.

great fun,
jr

Cool, looks like we're both in about the same boat.

I was wondering about the red marks, assembly line marks to show a step completed?, or maybe anti tamper marks to prevent warranty fraud?